Re: Debugging serial ports

[Rama Roberts <Rama.Roberts@Eng>]

You can grab PalmTerm from 
http://www.pdacentral.com/pilotzone/files/PlmTrm00.zip
install it on your pilot, 

then run this as root on the sparc:
/etc/getty ttyb 19200
(for serial port b. Use ttya for serial a). This is for solaris 2.6, BTW.

Afterwards, run PalmTerm, and start graffiti-ing away.
PalmTerm should give you a login: prompt if the serial connection is okay. 
You more than likely won't be able to login, but this should work fine to 
debug that sketchy sounding cable.

This probably isn't the easiest way, but is the only way I know of.

--rama


> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:15:59 -0500 (EST)
> From: Steve Morris <smorris@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Debugging serial ports
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> 
> I know this has been discussed a thousand times but I can't get
> communication working between My Sparc 20 and my pilot. admintool
> shows what it should but I can't find eeprom. I really suspect that
> there is a cabling problem, especially because I have a very exotic
> cable provided to me by MIS here. Failing buying a serial port
> protocol analyzer how do I debug this? Installing a terminal program
> on the pilot would help. That will be easier when I have download
> capability. Is there any built in capability to look at the serial
> port of the pilot? I can run tip on the UNIX side or just cat garbage.
> 
> Why does it sometimes seem like I spend half my life making two RS 232
> "standard" devices talk to each other.
> 
> Sigh...
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